Minister of Legal and Constitutional Affairs, Marlene Malahoo Forte, is rejecting a Gleaner report suggesting the JLP Government plans to target civil servants with personal political preferences. She’s responding to a Jamaica Gleaner article published online today, July 21, under the headline “JLP Gov’t to clamp down on politically driven civil servants.” But Minister Malahoo […]

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Transport Minister Daryl Vaz is welcoming news that the Jamaica Urban Transit Company Limited, JUTC, saw an increase of $100 million in fare income for 2024. The State-owned bus company earned $1.3 billion in fares last year, compared to $1.2 billion in 2023. The improved performance came from both passenger and charter trips. For the […]

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Small and medium-sized enterprises, SMEs, across Latin America and the Caribbean are struggling to compete globally due to a correspondent banking system designed for multinational giants. That’s according to a study conducted by the credit card giant, Mastercard. It found that instead of facilitating growth, traditional cross-border payment processes are holding SMEs back, forcing them […]

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An increasing number of Jamaicans rely on remittances to supplement their earnings. That’s according to the most recent Jamaica Chamber of Commerce, JCC, Business and Consumer Confidence Survey for the second quarter of 2025. The survey was conducted by the Don Anderson-led Market Research Services Limited. Colliecia Wright tells us more. As part of President […]

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Elhydro Limited is threatening to take legal action against the Gleaner Company unless it retracts what it says are false, misleading, and defamatory claims published in last Sunday’s publication. The Sunday Gleaner report plunged Elhydro into the controversy surrounding the importation of 110 buses for the government’s rural school bus programme. However, in a letter […]

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Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness says the fiscal crisis of the 1990s under the former People’s National Party administration served to retard the progress of Jamaica’s entrepreneurial class by decades. The prime minister sought to drive home the point while addressing business owners at the Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Linkages Day put on by […]

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While both business and consumer confidence have increased in the second quarter of 2025, both groups continue to be cautious because of cost of living concerns. That’s according to the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce survey for the period presented on Tuesday. Pollster and CEO of Market Research Services, Limited, Don Anderson, says while many Jamaicans […]

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Both consumer and business confidence improved slightly for the second quarter of 2025 ending in June. That’s according to the latest survey conducted for the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce by the Don Anderson-led Market Research Services Limited. According to the data presented on Tuesday by Anderson, consumer confidence improved in the April to June quarter, […]

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I’m putting in the work. That’s the response of North Central Clarendon member of parliament, MP, the Jamaica Labour Party’s, JLP, Robert Morgan, to the recent poll by Bluedot Insights that shows him holding a 12 point lead over the People’s National Party’s, PNP, Aujae Dixon. Morgan says the 2024 local government elections revealed some […]

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Chairman of the Factories Corporation of Jamaica, FCJ, Lyttleton ‘Tanny’ Shirley, is defending the rental cost being charged to the St. Thomas Municipal Corporation for use of the Morant Bay Urban Centre in the parish. The over $10 million a month charge came under scrutiny at a recent meeting of the municipal corporation, after a […]

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